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Jan2007
First
Stop of 2007, Fast Eddies, Austin, Texas - a Huge Success.
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The
Hunter Classics
Amateur Women's
Tour kicked off the 2007 season with a resounding 14th year in the
making, with our first stop at Fast Eddie's, Round Rock, Texas
this past weekend January 27-28. For 14
years, Wes
Hunter, Alamogordo,
New Mexico has been sponsoring
the Hunter Classics tour
and each year he has provided a custom Hunter Classics pool cue for
every
single one of the Hunter tour events and without Wes, this tour would
not be
possible. Wes, a big THANK YOU, from
your Hunter girls.
Sixty-nine
(69) players came out for
this first stop and by day's end on Saturday, the usual top tour
players were
fighting this time through the “B” side of the bracket, and new faces
surfaced
on the “A” side still undefeated.
Surprisingly, not returning in the top 16 player group was
Amanda
Lampert, fresh off her recent Regional Tour Championship win the
previous
weekend in Spring Hill, Florida,
where she won entries into 7 of this year's WPBA events, including the
BCA
Enjoypool 9-ball competition in May in Las Vegas
and the U.S. Open in Albuquerque, New
Mexico. Amanda
was awesome with a capital “A” and we couldn't be more proud of her! Amanda, congratulations as you represented
the Hunter Tour well!
One
new face to the Hunter event this
weekend was Estelle Bijnen who just happened to be in the Austin
neighborhood. All the way from The
Netherlands, Holland, to
be
specific, Estelle was certainly on a quest and her great stroke and
skilled
shooting earned her a spot in the top 16 player group.
Read more about Estelle’s mission later in
this article.
Other
state representatives from Colorado
(Samm Diep), Arkansas
(Lisa
Marr), Missouri
(Jennifer Combs),
and of course, the home state of Texas
(Leslie Anne Rogers, Helen Hayes, Jennifer Kraber, Tara McCracken,
Chris White,
Kyu Yi, Heather Lloyd, Terry Petrosino, Shayla Neris, Annie Doyle,
Michelle Ram
and Cristina Dela Garza), were all part of the top 16 group. Laura Bendakis from Chicago,
IL was also present at Fast Eddie's
and
fell one spot short of the final 16 but we were glad to see her at the
tournament nonetheless.
Jennifer
Combs from Kansas City, MO
had her highest tour
finish yet with a nice 5th/6th place. Jennifer Kraber,
Shayla Neris
and Heather Lloyd, all from Austin, TX
finished 4th, 3rd, and 2nd places
respectively. For Jennifer Kraber and
Shayla, they both finished with their highest tour finishes ever and
witnessing
their excellent game playing all weekend, they both are to be commended
for
jobs well done.
Heather
Lloyd, always one to be
reckoned with on the pool table, came out in full force.
Heather placed 3rd at the
Regional Tour Championship last weekend in Spring Hill and she
continued her
great winning stride with a nice 2nd place finish this
weekend.
Estelle,
who performed pretty
flawlessly this weekend, won the hot seat with a 7-0 win against Shayla
Neris. So now Estelle just played the
wait and see game to see who her opponent would be in the finals. Then it was a battle of the Jennifer's,
(Jennifer Kraber vs. Jennifer Combs) with Jennifer Kraber winning 7-4. Then the battle of the Austin
locals was set…Jennifer Kraber vs. Heather Lloyd for 4th place. Heather came out as the victor 7-3
and she
then prepared for another Austin
local battle with Shayla Neris. Shayla
gave it her all but she couldn't overcome the ever resilient Heather
where she
earned another rematch with Estelle.
Estelle earlier defeated Heather 3-7 and the final stage was set. Estelle proved too much for Heather and came
away with her first Hunter tour win by a score of 7-4, plus the WPBA
qualifier
to be held at the Blue Chip Casino in Michigan
City, Indiana in March.
Heather Lloyd, Estelle Beijnen, Jennifer Kraber and Shayla Neris
Many,
many thanks to Wes Hunter and
his well-known Hunter Classics Custom Cues.
Be sure to check out his awesome work here: http://www.hunterclassics.com/cues/hunterclassics.html Also superb Texas
hospitality from Danny Minnick and Amie, the management team from Fast
Eddie’s
plus all their friendly and hard-working staff members.
We do so appreciate everyone!
Our next Hunter stop
will be at
Shooters II in Lake Jackson,
TX,
weekend of March 3rd-4th.
Come on out for Good Pool, Good Friends, Good Times.
Complete
Main event
payouts, $2,000 added:
| 1 |
Estelle |
Bijnen |
$ 750.00 |
| 2 |
Heather |
Lloyd |
$ 600.00 |
| 3 |
Shayla |
Neris |
$ 465.00 |
| 4 |
Jennifer |
Kraber |
$ 340.00 |
| 5 |
Jennifer |
Combs |
$ 205.00 |
| 5 |
Kyu |
Yi |
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| 7 |
Lisa |
Marr |
$ 120.00 |
| 7 |
Leslie Anne |
Rogers |
|
| 9 |
Annie |
Doyle |
$ 80.00 |
| 9 |
Michelle |
Ram |
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| 9 |
Cristina |
Dela Garza |
|
| 9 |
Terry |
Petrosino |
|
| 13 |
Chris |
White |
$ 50.00 |
| 13 |
Samm |
Diep |
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| 13 |
Tara |
McCracken |
|
| 13 |
Helen |
Hayes |
|
| 17 |
Julia |
Rapp |
$ 30.00 |
| 17 |
Nicole |
McDaniel |
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| 17 |
Jillian |
Valles |
|
| 17 |
Julie |
Stephenson |
|
| 17 |
Renee |
Nyugen |
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| 17 |
Melinda |
Hinojosa |
|
| 17 |
Laura |
Bendikas |
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| 17 |
Kim |
Pierce |
|
| 25 |
Michelle |
Abernathy |
$ 20.00 |
| 25 |
Belinda |
Lee |
|
| 25 |
Kim |
Mills |
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| 25 |
Sherri L |
Smith |
|
| 25 |
Nico |
Adams |
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| 25 |
Lisa |
Henderson-Major |
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| 25 |
Sheri |
Palma |
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| 25 |
Kathy |
Knuth |
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| 2nd Chance |
28 women, 100 added
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| 1 |
Belinda |
Lee |
$ 140.00 |
| 2 |
Amanda |
Lampert |
$ 100.00 |
| 3 |
Kim |
Sanders |
$ 75.00
|
| 4 |
Sue |
Chong |
$ 45.00
|
| 5 |
Sandra |
Adams |
$ 25.00
|
| 6 |
Lisa |
Henderson-Major |
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| 7 |
Sylvia |
Shipman |
$ 15.00
|
| 8 |
Jillian |
Valles |
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| 9 |
Julia |
Rapp |
$ 10.00
|
| 10 |
Betsy |
Donaldson |
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| 11 |
Carrie |
Shannon |
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| 12 |
Kathy |
Knuth |
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